also if you seriously think that evolution and the bible can co-exist... then... well... PROVE IT!
Alright, let's do this thing.
The story of Adam and Eve starts out when God created all the animals. He then created man. When Adam got bored, he created Eve. Then a snake talked to Eve, she convinced Adam to eat from the tree of knowledge, we were kicked out of Eden. A bunch of begatting happened. Humanity.
The story of Adam and Eve is a metaphor.
God "created" all the animals when they evolved from chemicals trapped in a phosphsolibid bilayer. Eventually, this turned into a living organism, read "god then created man". When Adam got bored, god created Eve, and a snake convinced her to make them both smart. Eve represents sexual reproduction, the "snake" convinced Eve to let Adam eat her "apple". Also: we stopped being unintelligent. We were then kicked out of Eden. Eden being the water surrounding the Pangean supercontinent. After lots of begatting (evolving), humanity existed. Adam and Eve as a metaphor for evolution.
"But Gl1tch!" you scream, "the bible says that Adam and Eve were caught because they started wearing clothes!"
To which I reply, "The bible is a word-of-mouth document that has been passed down for centuries, with some parts removed, and then edited and re-edited and translated who knows how many times before it finally came to be what it is. Who knows what bits the church changed during the dark ages? If you honestly believe the bible word for word, you get what you deserve. Ignorance."
The general concept parallels with evolution well enough, and if both sides were willing to compromise, they could co-exist.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
In the beginning, there was just the heavens and the Earth. Or, perhaps this really means there was just space and a huge hunk of dirt floating around in it. Now, as I said before, you cannot believe that after all these years the supposed word of god hasn't been tampered with. If the bible is correct, than it is likely god didn't hover over the "waters", and instead the word used to be something else. Or perhaps "waters" is a metaphor for the gas that made up Earth before it's gravity compacted it. And the whole "let there be light" section would probably be when the thing we call earth first started revolving around the sun. The creation of day and night would be Earth spinning on it's axis.
Not
exactly accurate, but believable enough.
In the next section, god creates a gap between the water below and the water above. Acting under the premise the bible is really a mistranslation of evolution, we can assume the water below is magma, because gas-earth is now compacting and causing high amounts of volcanic activity, and the water above is outer space. This would be when the preliminary atmosphere was forming. The out-gassing of these volcanoes would be the formation of the sky.
The formation of dry ground and seas would be the comet that crashed into Earth. It blasted huge amounts of dust into the air and cooled the planet down, causing water and land to form. This comet ALSO brought some of the chemicals needed for life, the ones that would form phospholipid bilayers and early cells. These would be plants and vegetation.
The fourth day is weird. It seems to say God is making another sun. If the bible really is true, this is probably a section that was tampered with, or maybe I just don't get the metaphor. But the rest of it makes sense. Light from the other stars would be first arriving, cause it took a REALLY long time to reach us, and the moon would be forming from the dust from the meteor.
The next couple days represent the next discrepancy. While fish did evolve next, birds didn't evolve until after amphibians and reptiles, because whereas fish are cold blooded, birds are warm blooded. But, over the next to days animals evolved, and lastly, man evolved.
Again, with an open mind, the bible and evolution CAN coexist.
Also: The parts that were metaphors (if the bible is true) would probably be the parts man didn't understand when God told him them. Things like evolution, the creation of the planet, and other things.
